Question

Let’s say I have a line like this:

pick 22086f5 do something....

I can put my cursor on the “p” in pick and delete word, however the line then looks like:

22086f5 do something....

and I can do a replace on 2 and replace it with an “s”, but that’s not really what I want. What I want is a simple way to insert 1 character without going into insert mode.

Answer 1

It is probably easiest to just put the cursor on the p and do ces<esc>. If you have the letter s in a buffer, say in buffer a, you could do: de"aP. If you are always replacing the word pick, you could also do dtkrs.